Boy, talk about being touchy. My laptop must be paranoid----or else controlled by some gnome in National Security. It denied me access again, so I had to wipe the harddrive and start all over again. Luckily, however, I had made backups of all my important files, but this is getting to be annoying. Maybe Bill Gates is so scared of "software piracy" he designed Windows to do this? Who knows?Now, on to my next topic---that time of year again and the so-called "War On Xmas". Get over it, people! I mean, don't we have enough trouble with this War On Terror, we have to add to it? Isn't this season plenty nerve-wracking on its own? Let's just stop for a minute and think. Just because I, as a Jew, wishes a Christian "happy holidays" doesn't mean I'm against Xmas. And, by the way, Xmas is a perfectly proper form of the word, having come from the Greek in which the letter X means christos, the original from whence we derived ours. No, it's not x-ing out the Christian messiah. I got enough of that when I wrote "Merry XMAS" on the board during student teaching and the class nearly crucified me! For those of us who don't celebrate Christian holidays (including atheists as well), there's nothing "hateful" about expressing a wish that all our December holidays (Xmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, etc.) be merry. After all, it's not just my holiday, or your holiday, but a time to be cognizant of the blessings of freedom---which includes the freedom not to believe as well.
Sure, there are militant atheists out there who bring these assinine suits against creches on private property and such, but they represent the lunatic fringe. They're basically "lone wolves", really, who have extremely little influence in society at-large, so they do stupid things to get attention. There is no "war" on religion, people. Let's just chuck all this political correctness and enjoy our holidays, okay?
